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Red Hat: Solve enterprise waste through open sourcePosted by: admin in Business and PoliticsRed Hat’s Jim Whitehurst pounded the pulpit this week about the need to expand open source into the largest software developer market on the planet: The enterprise. Oracle, Microsoft, et al. write lots of software, but their contributions to the software world are infinitesimal compared with the development done at real software shops like Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, etc. Whitehurst said:
Exactly. Jim knows what he’s talking about: He comes from the enterprise world, having served as COO of Delta Airlines for several years. If Red Hat can become the hub to that development world, it will dominate the market…in a positive way. All of which made this email I received from the head of public relations at a large enterprise so intriguing:
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Accenture, SpringSource team up, but here’s the real newsPosted by: admin in Business and PoliticsIn an example of the real news lurking behind the press release, SpringSource and Accenture have announced that they are teaming up to provide an open-source batch processing solution to the market:
That’s ostensibly the news (though it’s really a year old), but I actually think there’s something much more significant in play: Accenture is actually partnering with an open-source company, rather than just deploying the open-source software. Open source is nothing new to Accenture and other global system integrators. Indeed, Accenture uses a large and increasing amount of open source in its business. What is new is the “novel” idea of helping the company behind the project actually get paid. The SpringSource announcement is the only real record you’ll find of Accenture partnering with an open-source company, despite widespread deployment of open-source software by Accenture. A student at UC Davis has come up with some cool visualizations of what open-source development looks like. It’s pretty cool, but would this be a better visualization?  (Credit: IBM)Or you could insert the logos of any number of companies (Red Hat, Intel, Novell, etc.). While we speak …
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eBay opens up its Selling Manager tool to outside developersPosted by: admin in Business and PoliticsOpen source has made a significant impact on the “offline” world of packaged software, but it’s arguably having a more important impact on the internet world. In the latest sign of the importance of openness to development in a SaaS world, eBay announced that it wil be opening up its Selling Manager auction tool to outside developers:… Filed under: Freeware, Internet, World wide web Tools
Firefox-Mac-PDF grants for the same in-line PDF viewing that can be found in Safari. This plug-in requires Firefox 3 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher. You can download the plug-in for free from their Google Code page. To install the plug-in, just open the Add-ons panel by going to Tools > Add-ons. Once there, drag the downloaded “.xpi” file to the Add-ons. You will be asked if you wish to install the plug-in. Once you restart Firefox you’ll be able to view all PDFs right within Firefox. [via Lifehacker] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Filed under: Software, World wide web Tools
Why would you want to do this? If you’re a web developer you probably want to check your work in FireFox 2 as well as 3. MultiFireFox also lets those of you who don’t want to jump into the new version of FireFox get your feet wet with the new hotness (or should that be the ‘new wetness?’), but keep FF2 close at hand. MultiFireFox 2 is free, so you can’t beat the price and runs on OS X 10.4 and above. |
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